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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
9
J R Dall announced he has ordered his organization to unload a large stock of better grade used cars worth about 25000 dollars. The cars, later models, were acquired through demand for Ford and Lincoln Zephyr new cars and will be sold according to their exact condition. He aims to help local buyers upgrade with a small investment during the summer.
E J O'Donnell, 47, of Columbus, died in Lima from injuries from a Sunday night collision with a truck west of Delphos. Theobald, truck driver, paid a $10 fine plus costs after pleading guilty to driving without proper lights in Delphos mayor's court.
The City Grill Company of Elyria is formed to operate a restaurant with 250 shares of no par stock. Incorporators are William G. Sederis, James G. Sederis, and James Zaferis. The announcement was made in Columbus today.
The description notes Hindu women in India wearing extensive ornamentation on the head ears and nearly every body part including the waist and toes.
Oberlin April 28. Dean Carl Wittke addressed 1800 students in Finney Chapel arguing democracy thrives only if efficient. He blamed the Reorganization Bill defeat on partisan hysteria and patronage, urged reducing bureaus and avoiding government by telegrams, and warned of a creeping dictatorship amid urban and global pressures.
Market notes show grain prices for wheat corn oats rye and livestock in Toledo with varied values. A subsequent opinion piece critiques U.S. government reorganization efforts, citing Taft Harding Hoover and Congress, accusing a “fascist triumvirate” of overreaching with restructuring plans.
A World’s Tonic promotional piece parades constipation as a public menace in Elyria. It claims experts traced the culprit to the community, urges elimination of “gangsters” in the intestinal tract, and touts Phillips Drug Store as the place to buy the medicine with testimonials and reports of its effectiveness.
Market notes show butter steady at 29 cents for 3 lanes, EGGS steady with extra grade at 2014 cents and extra firsts at 19 cents. LIVE POULTRY weak with hens heavy 2 cents, Leg Horn heavy 18, broilers 5 cents, ducks 18 cents, Muscovas and smalls 1 cent. Potatoes listed with New York russets 1.25 to 1.80 per cwt, Ohio 1.28 to 1.39, Idaho 1.50 to 1.83, Maine 1.40 to 1.60, Florida box 1.25 to 1.40.
The listing shows cold storage apples including Baldwin, Stayman Winesap, Jonathan, and McIntosh with prices. various vegetables such as asparagus, beets, carrots, celery, cabbage, cucumbers, dandelions, horseradish, kale, leeks, lettuce, and tomatoes priced per basket, peck, or pound. Also includes maple syrup, mushrooms, onions, parsley, radishes, rhubarb, chives, spinach, turnips, watercress, and grain and hay price quotations from local suppliers and mills.
The report shows mixed movement in dairy creamery, egg, and poultry prices with some items flat. Grain prices list various wheat and barley quotes, with US Department of Agriculture figures for red and russet potatoes and state price ranges for select varieties.
A committee favors naming Elyria for first day sale of the new air mail stamp during National Air Mail Week. Postmaster Charles J. Sartor would file the request, noting Elyria’s link to William Graves Sharp who introduced the first air mail bill in 1913. The design honors Sharp as “The Father of the Air Mail” and Cascade Falls feature, with a $10 prize awarded for the best suggestion by Carl Johnson.
Oberlin High School will hold commencement on June 1 at 8:00 p m in the First Church in Oberlin. Dr Franklin McNutt, Director of Higher Education in the State Department of Education, will deliver the address. The senior class is over seventy. officers include President Tom Wood and Secretary Borghild Kafka.
Seven Oberlin High School students will compete at Mount Union College Alliance Ohio in the Northeastern Ohio Solo and Ensemble Contest on Saturday. Janet Ashley piano Berneisis Young viola Mary Alice Webber bass Guy Thrower drums Bradford Warner baton twirling Ruth Miller flute Farra Young cello.
At a League of Women Voters meeting on Monday evening Ellsworth Carlson of Oberlin College spoke for a unicameral system while George Winwood argued against. A question period followed the debate and Professor J. J. Auer summarized the topic. Mrs Julian S Fowler presided. The program was sponsored by the department of Government and its operation of the local.
The committee led by Stuntz Kay Ahlgrim Martin Bauer J G Haynes and L E Palmer will ask Congress to send a memorial wreath. The wreath honors an individual who dropped from a mail plane at the Lorain County celebration in Oberlin and was brought to Elyria for interment at the Sharp tomb.
Far East market conditions lift silk prices in France as dealers report tighter supply and stronger demand. Traders note price gains amid ongoing supply chain disruptions and speculative activity influencing textile markets.
Miss Charlotte Booker and Donald Payne attended the Northern Ohio Baptist Sunday School and B Y P N Association meeting at Nessiah Baptist Church in Cleveland from April 21 to 24. Willard Mitchell, Mt. Zion Baptist Sunday School superintendent, was re elected second vice president of the Sunday School Association and fourth vice president of the B Y P N.
The First Church Forum meeting scheduled for this evening has been postponed because of the pageant by the Ohio Pioneers to be held in Finney Chapel tonight.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Vernon G Stevens of North Main street on Wednesday morning April 27 at Allen hospital. Members of the Women is Relief Corps are asked to meet at Sedgeman Funeral parlors at two o clock Friday for Mrs Edith Christys funeral. Mrs Adah O Darling has returned home on South Main street after winter in West Palm Beach Florida. Mrs Donald Robinson and baby daughter of Elyria visit her parents Mr and Mrs J N Stone of South Main street Mrs George Jackson of North Cedar avenue and Mrs Ellsworth Biggs of Elyria visited Mrs James Heyward in a Cleveland hospital Tuesday and found her much improved.
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